Issue with alacritty migrate

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Hello again! I’ve got an issue with alacritty migrate.

sudo alacritty migrate

Configuration file migration failed:
    "/root/.config/alacritty/alacritty.toml": already in TOML format

If I reopen alacritty it still says the same warning

YAML config “/home/user/.config/alacritty/alacritty/yml” is deprecated, please migrate to TOML unsing ‘alacritty migrate’

when I those
it gets replaceed by the following error message

[ERROR]
($ALACRITTY_LOG) :
unable to loead config
“/home/user/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml” : Config error : duplicate entry with key “window” at line 6 column 1

micro ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yaml
shows the env: entry at line 6
and the toml file does not exist at all.

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    serial: <filter>
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  API: OpenGL Message: Unable to show GL data. glxinfo
    is missing.
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    vendor: Hewlett-Packard 8 driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
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    Shell: garuda-inxi default: fish v: 3.7.0
    running-in: alacritty inxi: 3.3.33
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  Windows dual boot:       No/Undetected
  Failed units:

also tried the migrate -i option with and without sudo

λ alacritty migrate -i
Configuration file migration failed:
    "/home/user/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml": parsing error: Config error: duplicate entry with key "window" at line 6 column 1

 sudo alacritty migrate -i
[sudo] password for user:
Configuration file migration failed:
    "/root/.config/alacritty/alacritty.toml": already in TOML format

thank you very for the awesome support!
best regards
algori

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You have to execute it without sudo.
Before that, check what you have in

/home/user/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml

at line 6
Ops, sorry, I see you already mentioned that.
But what does it mean

The toml file does not exist because you executed the migration only with sudo, for the root user instead of your user, and without sudo you get the error and the migration does not complete.

One thing you could do is to try resetting alacritty to its default config before launching alacritty migrate again. It should be:

cp /etc/skel/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml

Make sure to backup your current ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml before that.

Last but not least, it looks like you’re not alone with troubles with this migration.
This is a long issue regarding its implementation. closed but still quite “active”.

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It’s just

alacritty migrate

nothing more or less.
Like the hint wrote

Works fine here on many DE’s.

Search for root files in your home folder

find $HOME ! -user $USER -type f

and remove them

sudo chown -R $USER: $HOME
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Hello!

First of all, thank you for this quick reply, and I’m really sorry, but I have a big flaw, I’m stupid, when it comes to find information due to the internet.

so after a while of just getting useless topics and information, I still don’t know how to back up a file.
I’ve guessed just cp wouldn’t do the trick caused by the name of the file. but maybe I just have to change the name a bit while coping, but even this command I could’t find.

embarrassed regards
algori

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You can back up the file with cp, for example like this:

cp ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml.backup

In this example, ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml is the file to be copied, and ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml.backup is the name of the copy.

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I guess there is no /etc/skel/… anymore, caused by the new version. cp didn’t found it.

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thank you!

well, this is how it goes, I knew what this is about, but wasn’t confident enough to just do it, or even read about the cp commad. sorry for that extra effort!

no I’m just a little weird headed lately, cp does those and nothing else.sorry for fetching my own tail. (gotta cold)

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I would guess the one in /etc/skel is no longer a yml file, so you might have to change that command accordingly. Check like this:

ls /etc/skel/.config/alacritty/
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your solution I actually didn’t get at all.

Sorry.

I’ve got, that it may does cause problems to have this sudo /root/.config/alacritty/alacritty.toml
file somewhere so I should remove the sudo ownership?

and thats what the -R is causing, I guess.

but the find command does not do something usefull for me. I might change the path wrong, or the user command. I’ll look it up.

(I tried the migrate without sudo first.)

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there isn’t anything about alacritty

 /etc/skel/.config🔒 took 1ms
 ╰─λ ls
drwxr-xr-x    - root 19 Feb 19:28  autostart
drwxr-xr-x    - root 19 Feb 19:28  bleachbit
drwxr-xr-x    - root 19 Feb 19:28  deluge
drwxr-xr-x    - root 19 Feb 19:28  environment.d
drwxr-xr-x    - root  7 Mai  2021  falkon
drwxr-xr-x    - root 19 Feb 19:28  fish
drwxr-xr-x    - root  7 Mai  2021  libreoffice
drwxr-xr-x    - root 19 Feb 19:28  micro
drwxr-xr-x    - root 19 Feb 19:28  mpv
drwxr-xr-x    - root 19 Feb 19:28  pacseek
drwxr-xr-x    - root 19 Feb 19:28  psd
drwxr-xr-x    - root 19 Feb 19:28  smplayer
drwxr-xr-x    - root 19 Feb 19:28  vlc
.rw-r--r-- 2,3k root 12 Feb  2022  starship.toml
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That makes sense actually, since Alacritty is not a default package for XFCE or for Garuda common settings.

Do you have a lot of custom configuration in your Alacritty config? If not, it might be easier to just pull down a new config by moving the yml one to backup and re-open Alacritty.

To do that, you would do basically the same command as the copy example above except use mv instead of cp.

mv ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml.backup

When you re-open Alacritty, it should generate a new config on it’s own. I am assuming it would do this with a toml config since that is the new supported standard.

From there, it would be a matter of pulling over any customization you want to keep from the yml version into the toml version.

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thank you it worked just fine!
hm, maybe not perfectly fine. no errors and warnings, but it seems like it’s still not in toml.
or it is and I just don’t find the config file.

found it! it is still root
/root/.config/alacritty/alacritty.toml

but if I change anything in that file, and save, nothing is different.

didn’t had a lot customized, just some color schemes.

best regards thankfully
algori

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